The Covid-19 pandemic has accentuated the urgency of major social challenges we have been aware of for quite some time, such as climate change, inequality and poverty. Hand in hand we formed a circle. At the heart of our reunion was a burn barrel, neat holes punctured on its wall pulsing with glowing ferocity as leaf after leaf of paper money were fed into its licking tongues. Currency for the afterlife, big and small, their tiny golden and silver foil squares flying loose and spinning in the air like expelled wishes. Then it was shoes, pants, shirts, coats, maquettes of cars and houses.

Confidence in the quality of our organisation is also an enormous support. We feel it is a great responsibility to use resources for the design community with the utmost care by providing an increasingly international platform.